Mind-set

[jhetley]

Okay, the Catholic bishop and the self-named Christian Civic League are getting all wound up about a middle school making contraception available to students:
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=155572&zoneid=500

After all, they both want to control other people's lives and raise other people's children.  That's why they got into the religion racket in the first place...

Comments

[lolleeroberts.livejournal.com]

Sorry, since the Catholic Church has shown itself continually unable to protect children from predatory priests I find their preaching on this subject immensely arrogant and hypocritical. Whatever dubious moral authority they might have claimed is long, long gone.

[prophet-marcus.livejournal.com]

I saw the news about the Portland school the other night. Good idea although one opposed set of parents did have one valid concern. If a girl is on the pill and her parents don't know it, it could cause problems in a medical emergency.

On a similar note, I do wonder how much research has been done on how the pill effects younger girls, those just going through puberty. Hormones already going wild and then adding more in? I hope they know what they're doing.

I also hope they include a really comprehensive sex education program so these kids know the whys and hows. Face it, the real deal is more likely to put kids off of sex than any amount of "abstinence education".

(Yes, I really am a registered republican. Not for much longer, I expect.)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I used to be a registered republican, before Padilla et al. Some residual respect for that oath I swore to "uphold and protect" made me drop my membership.